Growing Pains: Part Deux

Written by Alec on 13.05.2008 | Essays On Life, Gentoo

Alon Bl has left the project (the mail hasn’t hit archives.gentoo.org or I’d link you). In his resignation he stated that he had problems with other developers and that was a big part of his leaving. He talks about a lack of leadership, of goals, and of user experience; of good developers leaving, […]

More gStats

Written by Alec on 12.05.2008 | Gentoo

I have not worked on gstats in a while and it definately needed some improvements. I found myself struggling with the UI a lot and after chatting with Graff on irc I decided to drop the webUI entirely and go RESTful. Ewwww REST….
I actually hate REST because all of its supporters claim it […]

Bloated Tree, new pkgcore, zd1211rw wireless driver, ratpoison.

Written by Alec on 03.05.2008 | Uncategorized

I moved recently, new place is a house; no real room to run cables all over, has wireless intarwebs. I bought a usb wireless adapter thingiemabob for my desktop because it needed internet access (for the past few weeks i have been relying on my work laptop, which is not ideal). It took […]

Actionable Actions

Written by Alec on 28.04.2008 | Gentoo

philantrop, spb, and rbrown have had their developer rights revoked.
There is little information as to exactly why (certainly there have been past allegation of improper behavior by these developers and repeated complaints to council@gentoo.org).
I have made a formal request to the council for more information regarding this matter. I think we should strive for […]

Comments Off so far | Read On »